The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | |
|---|---|
 On-screen title card. | |
| Network | NBC |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
| Original release | September 15, 1968–February 23, 1969 |
| Starring | Michael Shea LuAnn Haslam Kevin Schultz Ted Cassidy Dorothy Tennant Anne Bellamy |
| Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music composed by | Ted Nichols |
| Director(s) | Hollingsworth Morse Bruce Bilson Walter S. Burr Byron Haskin Robert Gist Ezra Stone |
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American live-action/animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series originally aired on NBC, it ran from 1968 to 1969, airing 20 episodes that spanned one season.
The series followed Huckleberry Finn, and his friends, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher who, after escaping from the clutches of Injun Joe through a cavern, end up stuck in an animated world full of dangers, in which they would usually run into a villain with malicious intentions.
The entire series has been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Episodes
| Title | Original air date |
|---|---|
| 1x01 | September 15, 1968 |
| 1x02 | September 22, 1968 |
| 1x03 | September 29, 1968 |
| 1x04 | October 6, 1968 |
| 1x05 | October 13, 1968 |
| 1x06 | October 20, 1968 |
| 1x07 | October 27, 1968 |
| 1x08 | November 3, 1968 |
| 1x09 | November 24, 1968 |
| 1x10 | December 1, 1968 |
| 1x11 | December 15, 1968 |
| 1x12 | December 22, 1968 |
| 1x13 | December 29, 1968 |
| 1x14 | January 5, 1969 |
| 1x15 | January 19, 1969 |
| 1x16 | January 26, 1969 |
| 1x17 | February 2, 1969 |
| 1x18 | February 9, 1969 |
| 1x19 | February 16, 1969 |
| 1x20 | February 23, 1969 |
Cast
- Michael Shea as Huckleberry Finn
- LuAnn Haslam as Becky Thatcher
- Kevin Schultz as Tom Sawyer
- Ted Cassidy as Injun Joe
- Dorothy Tennant as Mrs. Thatcher
- Anne Bellamy as Aunt Polly
Merchandise
Home media
On June 28, 2016, the Warner Archive Collection released a 3-disc DVD set of the series called The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Complete Series.
Reading material
On September 26, 1968, Gold Key Comics published a one-shot comic The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #1, adapting the episode "The Curse of Thut," which actually came out three months before the episode.
